• «Планета есть колыбель разума, но нельзя вечно жить в колыбели.» — Константин Эдуардович Циолковский (1911)
• “Planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.” — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Category Archives: Astronomy
Locke’s LOX
“He that will not set himself proudly at the top of all things; but will consider the Immensity of this Fabrick, and the great variety, that is to be found in this little and inconsiderable part of it, which he has to do with, may be apt to think, that in other Mansions of it, there may be other, and different intelligent Beings, of whose Faculties, he has as little Knowledge or Apprehension, as a worm shut up in one drawer of a Cabinet, hath of the Senses or Understanding of a Man.” — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), viâ David Wootton’s The Invention of Science (2015)
Performative Post-Scriptum
The title of this incendiary intervention is intended to suggest the idea of Locke’s ideas acting as a rocket-fuel for the imagination like LOX or lox, meaning “liquid oxygen explosive; later interpreted as representing liquid oxygen” (OED).
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #57
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Do and Die — The Reason Why, Cecil Woodham-Smith (1953) (posted at O.-o.-t.-Ü)
• Liddell im Wörterland – Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon, Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott (1843)
• Lunar or Later – Moon: From 4.5 billion years ago to the present: Owners’ Workshop Manual, David M. Harland (Haynes 2016)
• Headlong into Nightmare – Headlong Hall (1816) / Nightmare Abbey (1818)
• Twisted Tales – Biggles’ Big Adventures: Four Classic Stories Starring the British Empire’s Most Fearless Pilot Adventurer, Captain W.E. Johns (Sevenoaks 2007)
• Stop the Brott – staying the serial slaying of a sanguinivorous psychoanalyst
• Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #52
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Reds in the Head – The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells (1898)
• Canine the Barbarian – The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories, Jack London (Penguin American Library 1981)
• Star-Stuff – The Universe in 100 Key Discoveries, Giles Sparrow (Quercus 2012)
• An Island of Her Own – The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps, Edward Brooke-Hitching (Simon & Schuster 2016)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #48
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Vois la Reine – Philip’s Moon Observer’s Guide, Peter Grego (Philip’s 2015)
• Gods of Fire – Volcano Discoveries: A Photographic Journey around the World, Tom Pfeiffer and Ingrid Smet (New Holland 2015)
• Chemical Tales – Rocks and Minerals, Ronald Louis Bonewitz (Dorling Kindersley 2012)
• Knyghtes of the Royalme – Malory: Works, ed. Eugène Vinaver (Oxford University Press 1977)
• Alfredo to Zinedine – Football’s Great Heroes and Entertainers, Jimmy Greaves with Norman Giller (Hodder & Stoughton 2007)
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He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #37
• Il sole, con tutti quei pianeti che girano intorno ad esso e da esso dipendono, può ancora maturare un grappolo d’uva come se non vi fosse nient’altro da fare in tutto l’universo. — Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642.
• “The sun, with all those planets turning around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #46
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Machina Mundi – The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, David Wootton (Allen Lane 2015)
• Wandering Wonders – Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World, Christian Sardet (The University of Chicago Press 2015)
• Love Buzz – A Buzz in the Meadow, Dave Goulson (Jonathan Cape 2014)
• Quake’s Progress – The Million Death Quake: The Science of Predicting Earth’s Deadliest Natural Disaster, Roger Musson (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)
• Sin after Cin – Gargoyle Girls from Beelzebub’s Ballsack: The Sickest, Sleaziest, Splanchnophagousest Slimefests in Scum Cinema, Dr Joan Jay Jefferson (TransToxic Texts 2016)
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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #44
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Lesser Letters – You’ve Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess (Heinemann 1990)
• The Light of Day – SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Vox Day (Castalia House 2015)
• Sextual Keeling – Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World’s Oceans, David Barrie (William Collins 2014)
• Twy Defy the Eye – The World of Visual Illusions: Optical Tricks That Defy Belief!, Gianni A. Sarcone and Marie-Jo Waeber (Arcturus 2012)
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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #37
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Maths and Marmosets – The Great Mathematical Problems: Marvels and Mysteries of Mathematics, Ian Stewart (Profile Books 2013)
• Be Ear Now – Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound, Trevor Cox (Vintage 2015)
• Exquisite Bulgarity – The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings, Mark Kushner (Simon & Schuster 2015)
• Stellar Story – Discovering the Universe: The Story of Astronomy, Paul Murdin (Andre Deutsch 2014)
• Terms of Endrearment – She Literally Exploded: The Daily Telegraph Infuriating Phrasebook, Christopher Howse and Richard Preston (Constable 2007)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #23
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Face Paint – A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits, Laura Cumming (HarperPress 2009; paperback 2010)
• The Aesthetics of Animals – Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviour, Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton (BBC Books 2009)
• Less Light, More Night – The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artifical Light, Paul Bogard (Fourth Estate 2013)
• The Power of Babel – Clark Ashton Smith, Huysmans, Maupassant
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 